ALBOREX Multi-platform frontal instabilities experiment workshop
Scientists involved in the ALBOREX oceanographic experiment, designed and led by the IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB) researcher Dr. Ananda Pascual in the frame of the European FP7 Project Perseus, and with strong involvement of SOCIB, met during 12-13 March 2015 at the headquarters of IMEDEA to evaluate the results obtained. ALBOREX conducted in May 2014 in eastern Alborán Sea is an example of the new multidisciplinary, integrated approach to multi-platform and quasi real-time observation of ocean and coastal areas.
The work aims to unravel the three dimensional structure of ocean eddies associated with intense density fronts. It was designed to capture the vertical motion associated with mesoscale and sub-mesoscale ocean eddies, filaments and fronts. The vertical motion associated with mesoscale and sub-mesoscale features such as ocean eddies, filaments and fronts plays a major role in determining ocean productivity, due to the exchange of properties between the surface and the ocean interior. Understanding the relationship between these physical and biological processes is crucial for predicting the marine ecosystems response to changes in the climate system and to sustainable marine resource management. However we have many gaps in our knowledge regarding the links between the physical and the ecosystem variability, which is particularly true in the Mediterranean where the pressure on marine ecosystems is high, due to the high human population and commercial exploitation.
source: Natalia Martin - IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB) -
